{"id":35894,"date":"2021-04-29T07:32:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T07:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/?p=35894"},"modified":"2024-11-03T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T09:31:13","slug":"wizards-continue-late-season-surge-meaning-playoffs-are-well-within-reach-charles-barkley-i-pay-to-watch-russell-westbrook-play-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/en\/wizards-continue-late-season-surge-meaning-playoffs-are-well-within-reach-charles-barkley-i-pay-to-watch-russell-westbrook-play-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards continue late season surge meaning playoffs are well within reach: Charles Barkley &#8220;I pay to watch Russell Westbrook play basketball&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Wizards have plenty of excuses for their lack of success early in the season whether it be their six-player COVID-19 outbreak or numerous injuries including losing Deni Avdija and Thomas Bryant to season enders. At 0-5, 3-12, 6-17, or 15-28, the Wizards could have completely fallen apart in a chaotic and condensed season, but that would not be the Russell Westbrook way. Fast forward and Washington has won 11 of their past 13 games including an 8-game winning streak to match the longest since Michael Jordan&#8217;s team in 2001.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_26750\" style=\"width: 930px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26750\" src=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/w_56591365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"920\" height=\"613\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/w_56591365.jpg 920w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/w_56591365-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/w_56591365-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26750\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russell Westbrook EPA-EFE\/Nick Wass<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nFollowing an impressive 116-107 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers, granted without LeBron James, the Wizards are 28-34 and have a two-game lead over Chicago and Toronto for the 10-seed and final spot in the Eastern Conference play-in tournament. Washington missed an opportunity to tie the franchise&#8217;s longest win streak of nine with an overtime loss to the Spurs on Monday but put that behind them with an eye-opening performance in their lone national television game. Daniel Gafford, Chandler Hutchison, and Rui Hachimura all had highlight-reel dunks to compliment the typical steady production from the All-Star backcourt. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rui Hachimura puts Anthony Davis on a POSTER \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<p>The stare back<\/p>\n<p>The Bradley Beal on his head<\/p>\n<p>EVERYTHING <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/54aMlfsjCp\">pic.twitter.com\/54aMlfsjCp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hoop District (@Hoop_District) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hoop_District\/status\/1387574480688631813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bradley Beal is currently holding off Steph Curry (31.2) as the NBA&#8217;s leading scorer at 31.3 points per game with career-high shooting percentages from the field (48.8%) and the free-throw line (90.0%). Unlike earlier in the season when battling a lingering quad injury, Russell Westbrook is healthy and playing his best basketball on the court for the Wizards to complement his consistently stellar leadership. Westbrook recorded his 30th triple-double of the season in just his 55th game for Washington with a stellar 18 points, 18 rebounds, 14 assists, and just two turnovers stat line. The future Hall of Famer is now just six triple-doubles away from surpassing Oscar Robertson on the all-time list.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_28835\" style=\"width: 1090px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28835\" src=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/EtG9vX4XYAUqCTc.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/EtG9vX4XYAUqCTc.jpeg 1080w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/EtG9vX4XYAUqCTc-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/EtG9vX4XYAUqCTc-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/EtG9vX4XYAUqCTc-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/EtG9vX4XYAUqCTc-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sportsrabbi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/EtG9vX4XYAUqCTc-440x440.jpeg 440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bradley Beal &#038; Russell Westbrook &#8211; Photo Credit: Washington Wizards<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&#8220;None of those teams in the Eastern Conference want to see the Wizards with Russ and Bradley in the playoffs,&#8221; Charles Barkley logically noted on TNT last week. &#8220;They&#8217;re going to win the play-in. I love Russ and Bradley Beal. To me, I pay to watch Russell Westbrook play basketball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Washington has 10 regular-season games left of which 7 of the next 8 will be on the road where they will hope to maintain their position in the play-in format if not improve their seeding. The Wizards are just two games behind the Hornets (30-32) for the 8-seed and 1.5 games back of the Pacers (29-32) for the 9-seed. Getting to the 8-seed or better and only needing a single win out of two games to earn a playoff series will be instrumental as opposed to needing back-to-back victories as a 9 or 10-seed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Wizards have plenty of excuses for their lack of success early in the season whether it be their six-player COVID-19 outbreak or numerous injuries including losing Deni Avdija and Thomas Bryant to season enders. At 0-5, 3-12, 6-17, or 15-28, the Wizards could have completely fallen apart in a chaotic and condensed season, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":35911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4074],"tags":[3842,4157,4156,3843,1872],"class_list":["post-35894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jews-in-sports","tag-bradley-beal","tag-charles-barkley","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-russell-westbrook-en","tag-washington-wizards","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wizards continue late season surge meaning playoffs are well within reach: Charles Barkley &quot;I pay to watch Russell Westbrook play basketball&quot; - 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